SIXTY BAYS IN CANOES
ROOSEVELT'S EXPEDITION NEW RIVER DISCOVERED By iyic£i\Tph— Press AKe:?ciatii>n—Copyright Manaos (Brazil), May 6. Mr. Roosevelt's expedition collected 2190 natural history specimens. Many were unknown before. A iw river, a thousand miles long, was discovered. The- upper portion whs j hitherto unknown, but the mouth had Leon known to a few rubber hunters. Tho river is largely unnavigablo owing ta rapuis. _ t Ills expedition spent sixty days in canoes, averaging two niiies daily. One mail was drowned in {fee rapids,. ' and Mr. Roosevelt's son Kormit had a narrow escape. Another member of the ( party went mad, murdered a comrade, and then fled into the wilderness. (
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 7
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108SIXTY BAYS IN CANOES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 7
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